About Annemarie
Our founder & CEO
About Annemarie
Annemarie Postma (1969), also known as “The Sitting Chef” , got a spinal cord injury at the age of eleven and ended up in a wheelchair for good. After a lengthy rehabilitation period of 5 years, she finally went back to school, did the gymnasium and studied law.
Not long after that she became the first professional model with a visible disability for Elite models and became a regular columnist for the Algemeen Dagblad for 9 years. In 1995 her first book I love me was published, of which more than 250,000 were sold.
She then published 22 more books about personal growth, transformation and health, of which 3 titles even became international bestsellers: The deeper Secret , The Secret within and The Power of Acceptance.
In 2016 she founded the first center for lifestyle medicine in the Netherlands: AM Lifestyle medicine Center , which grew into The Lifestyle Docs Clinics. She is also founder and editor-in-chief of Annemarie's health and LifestyleRx magazines .
"My lifestyle is my medicine, and after almost 44 years of wheelchair existence, I am still slim, vital and healthy; something that is exceptional with a spinal cord injury".
And lifestyle medicine offers the solution?
"Certainly. A change of lifestyle can have a huge positive influence on that and often even make medication superfluous. Often within a few weeks. Research shows that people with (pre)diabetes type 2 who eat healthier (and mainly unprocessed , plant based) eating, moving more and sleeping better often do not have to take medication Even patients who have been injecting insulin for years can often stop doing this completely after a few months of guidance.
Eating healthier in particular has such a huge positive impact on overall health and can reduce the severity of combined conditions. All the more reason, therefore, to use nutritional and lifestyle advice earlier and more often in the treatment of patients. In short: less medication, lower healthcare costs and a better quality of life”.
